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I’m very excited to report that the Deep Space platform continues to rapidly evolve, bringing exciting updates that empower civil and infrastructure projects. In a recent release, Deep Space introduce…
If we head over to IFC 2020 | Revit | Autodesk App Store we can see the latest listed version of the IFC Addin for Revit 2020, which is 20.3.2. However, if we head over to revit-ifc Releases page on G…
As software and standards mature and even become archaic, they inevitably attract baggage along the way. Years of technical debt amassed by well-intentioned developers and product managers will be pai…
At the moment, Revit communicates using its internal zero point when importing or exporting IFC. You can read this LinkedIn post where Joris Van Bossche describes his findings: You can also read my pr…
When Revit exports to IFC, it typically uses the current Location (Survey Point) Shared Coordinates as Origin. You can observe this in the IFC file: But what if you want to Export to IFC with Project …
TBP is a Tekla container format, and part of what it typically contains is the model data in IFC format. Just open the TBP in an archive viewer like 7-zip: Now you can see the folder structure inside …
Ever wondered how to install and use BIMserver to create your own IFC web viewer? Sometimes I finish a blog post and think, what a mess… That’s because I often sketch out things as I do them, on the f…
Links below: IFC for Revit 2015 (v15.6): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifc2015_windows32and64%3aen IFC for Revit 2016 (v16.3): http://apps.e…
Sometimes you have a set of DWFs that you would like to work with in Revit. For example, you might have DWFs of site equipment, fences and trucks that would be useful for site modelling in Revit. Here…
via email:… updates to IFC for Revit 2015 and IFC for Revit 2016, which you can get to using the links below: IFC for Revit 2015 (v15.5): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appst…